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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Köstritz (Municipality of Köstritz) |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse lettering | NOTGELD DER GEMEINDE KÖSTRITZ 50 PFENNIGE DIESER GUTSCHEIN ERLISCHT EINEN MONAT NACH ERFOLGTER BEKANNTMACHUNG |
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| Reverse lettering | SO BLEICH SO MAGER · SCHÖNES KIND · KOSTRITZER SCHWARZBIER NIMM GESCHWIND 50 Pfg |
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Köstritz is a small Saxon town best known — if known at all — for the dark lager brewed there since at least the eighteenth century. Like thousands of German municipalities, it issued its own emergency paper currency during the Weimar-era small-change crisis, when acute coin shortages forced local authorities to print fractional denominations the Reichsbank would not supply. These Gemeinde-issued Kleingeldscheine occupied a legal grey area: tolerated but not formally authorized, redeemable in theory but often quietly worthless once the issuing authority lost interest in honoring them.
Köstritz notgeld is not among the better-documented issues, and survival rates for these minor municipal pieces are uneven.